Mass Spectrometry Lab Scientist
4 days ago
Job Opportunity
The BC Centre for Disease Control is seeking a highly skilled Mass Spectrometry Lab Scientist to join our team in Vancouver, Canada.
About the Role
We are a provincial integrator and a strategic solutions-based organization that leverages partnerships with health organizations and the ministry to improve patient care. Our Public Laboratory Medicine Services (PLMS) is a cohesive, interrelated laboratory system that supports equity and access, and ensures patient safety through high quality, well coordinated laboratory services.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development of mass spectrometry assays and modifications to existing assays, including data interpretation, troubleshooting, and optimization of sample preparation and experimental design, quality procedures, and assays.
- Provide technical advice and direction to staff using the equipment in all aspects of their routine work and in newly-validated methods. Supervise and train users in the correct use of the equipment; recommend and oversee modifications to equipment as needed.
- Source and choose appropriate reagents for assay development, such as chemical, standards, calibrators, and internal standards.
- Develop and optimize method parameters, including compound-optimization experiments, chromatographic condition selection, and optimization.
- Research and develop novel mass spectrometric methods.
- Stay up-to-date with new technologies for sample preparation and analysis, such as new chromatographic techniques, new automation tools, and new MS approaches.
- Design, direct, perform, analyze, and interpret a wide range of experiments independently.
- Perform experimental method validation following appropriate guidelines.
Requirements
A level of education, training, and experience equivalent to a PhD in a relevant discipline such as Analytical Chemistry, Biochemistry, Forensic Sciences, Toxicology, or equivalent from a recognized post-secondary institution and five (5) years' experience working with Mass Spectrometry, Gas chromatography, Liquid Chromatography, and varied sample preparation procedures in a forensically accredited laboratory that follows good laboratory practice.
Desirable Skills and Knowledge
- Knowledge of programming languages, including Python, R, and Visual Basic, and familiarity with ISO 15189 or 17025.
- Demonstrated ability to evaluate experimental results and provide direction to personnel.
- Commitment to develop knowledge and understanding of legislative obligations and provincial commitments found in foundational documents, including Truth & Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Sight (2020), BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019), United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Reclaiming Power and Place Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Calls for Justice (2019), the Declaration Act Action Plan, and Remembering Keegan: A First Nations Case Study.
- Commitment to upholding the shared responsibility of creating lasting and meaningful reconciliation in Canada as per TRC (2015) and BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019).
- Knowledge of social, economic, political, and historical realities of settler colonialism on Indigenous Peoples and familiarity with addressing Indigenous-specific anti-racism, anti-racism, and Indigenous Cultural Safety and foundational documents and legislative commitments.
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